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Rachel Matheny
  • Home
  • About
  • Projects
    • Quid est nauta: Reconstructing the Sociocultural Existence of Roman Nautae
    • The Archaeology of Death and Memory in the Brazos Valley
    • Late Bronze Age Uluburun Shipwreck
    • Agency in Legacy Collections
    • Mile Marker 77
  • Experience
    • Excavations
    • Deckhand
    • Remote Survey Data Analyst
    • Mallows Bay-Potomac RiverNational Marine Sanctuary
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    • Home
    • About
    • Projects
      • Quid est nauta: Reconstructing the Sociocultural Existence of Roman Nautae
      • The Archaeology of Death and Memory in the Brazos Valley
      • Late Bronze Age Uluburun Shipwreck
      • Agency in Legacy Collections
      • Mile Marker 77
    • Experience
      • Excavations
      • Deckhand
      • Remote Survey Data Analyst
      • Mallows Bay-Potomac RiverNational Marine Sanctuary


Grays Harbor Historical Seaport Authority

Sailor Trainee/Deckhand

Summer 2018

Grays Harbor Historical Seaport is an educational non-profit that operates traditionally rigged vessels along the West Coast. Lady Washington is a full-scale replica of the original Lady Washington that rounded Cape Horn on a trading voyage after the American Revolution and in 1788 became the first American vessel to make landfall on the western coast of North America. Hawaiian Chieftain is a square-rigged topsail ketch built in Hawaii in 1988 with a modern triple keel and shallow draft hull.

I sailed on Hawaiian Chieftain learning how to sail traditional vessels and gathering first-hand data on the rigors, requirements, and social environment of those who work and live aboard traditional vessels. After completing a two-week training course, I was invited to remain on board as a crew member, performing daily rig and hull maintenance as well as assisting with daily vessel operations.

Hawaiian Chieftain has been dry-docked and Gray's Harbor has now sold it to new owners who intend to fix it up and sail it back to Hawaii.

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